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14,000 year old breadcrumbs

Gremlinertia · 2019-04-16 00:27:23

This article i'm linking to is from last summer, i've only found it now but found it interesting that baking seems to go back some four thousand years before originally thought. So these people made bread, a labour intensive process, while still engaged in nomadic behaviour before settling and farming.…

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This article i'm linking to is from last summer, i've only found it now but found it interesting that baking seems to go back some four thousand years before originally thought. So these people made bread, a labour intensive process, while still engaged in nomadic behaviour before settling and farming.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/24/631583427/14-000-year-old-piece-of-bread-rewrites-the-history-of-baking-and-farming?t=1555374244700

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And way before that dental tartar found on neandertal teeth showed they were eating seeds and grains and in a few cases these had been cooked. Maybe as gruel or primitive biscuits. The idea that farming came before bread always felt odd to me. Much more likely and just like animal husbandry we sought to collect in one place the things we had previously sought out by hunting and gathering.

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